Anonymouse

Obama and Kerry are ready to entertain Iran's rehabilitation.
Not Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants to keep Iran down. "Push us down, that is all I hear when I listen to Netanyahu," one Stanford and Harvard-educated Iranian businessman told me. He has a strong belief that drawing Iran closer to the world is essential, a strong dislike of the Iranian regime, and a strong sense of outrage at Israel's contempt for Iran's national aspirations.

Whoo-hoo, this anonymous Iranian businessman went to Stanford and Harvard, so Times readers should definitely pay attention to what he has to say? That seems to be the point of mentioning his education. The Cohen column doesn't mention Prime Minister Netanyahu's two degrees from MIT. Israel doesn't have contempt for "Iran's national aspirations." It had a fine relationship with Iran when the Shah was in power. But the "rehabilitation" of Iran entertained by Messrs. Obama and Kerry seems to involve Iran pretending to give up some aspects of its nuclear weapons program while continuing to fund terrorism, oppose the Arab-Israeli peace process, and abuse the human rights of the Iranian people. You don't need to be some anonymous source with a fancy education to figure out that that is not a great deal for either Israel or America.